Sarah Sze

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Sarah Sze (* 1969 in Boston , Massachusetts , USA ) is an American sculptor and installation artist .

Life

Sze, who has Chinese ancestors, attended the Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts until 1987 . She then graduated from Yale University in 1991 summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts . In 1997 she became a Master of Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York City . In 2013 she was commissioned to decorate the US pavilion at the 55th Biennale di Venezia with her works of art and was thus the official representative of her home country at the exhibition.

Sze's works, which she does with her own hands, are combinations of different materials such as B. Objects of everyday life. As constructions, these seem to defy the gravitational pull or they strive in a zigzag into the heights of the respective galleries. In the years 2011 to 2012, she installed on the High Line in Chelsea district of Manhattan the work Still Life with Landscape (Model for a Habitat) . With the completion of the underground train station on 96th Street as part of the new Second Avenue subway in Manhattan, tiles made by it will be permanently on view there.

Sze is married to the writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Siddhartha Mukherjee . The couple lives in New York City with their two daughters. There she teaches at the School of the Arts of Columbia University .

Prizes and awards

Teaching commitments

  • 1998: Visiting professor on the intersection of art and architecture at Yale University
  • 1999–2002: Lecturer in the Master of Fine Arts program at the School of Visual Arts, Manhattan, New York City
  • 2002–2004: Lecturer at the School of the Arts at Columbia University, Manhattan, New York City
  • 2005–2008: Adjunct Professor at Columbia University School of the Arts , Manhattan, New York City
  • since 2009: Full Professor at the School of the Arts at Columbia University, Manhattan, New York City

Exhibitions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians "S" / Sze, Sarah, NA 2013 ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 15, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
  2. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 10, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Sze, Sarah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sculptor and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts , USA